The preface of the book talks about student-centered learning. As one moves from basic to superior levels of understanding typical of the level of the checkpoints, learning proceeds through the following steps in which order?

Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Synthesis

In the context of science, how would you classify the following statement? Dinosaurs become extinct because a large asteroid collided with Earth?

Hypothesis

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What is a characteristic of empirical observations?

They can be measured by others.

What is true about the scientific method

hypotheses are constructed to explain observations, but must be tested for validity, hypotheses necessarily allow predictions to be made, a hypothesis is different from a theory

Geology can help us learn about Earth's past by studying:

why a landscape looks the way it does, how life in the past was different than today, & how global climate has changed since the ice ages

Which method of science reasoning uses specific observations to draw general conclusions?